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Thursday, February 23, 2012

Incident: Iberia A319 near Vienna on Feb 15th 2012, lightning strike

An Iberia Airbus A319-100, registration EC-KKS performing flight IB-3576 from Madrid, SP (Spain) to Vienna (Austria), was on approach to Vienna when the aircraft was struck by lightning. The crew continued for a safe landing on Vienna's runway 29.

The aircraft underwent inspections and as result of the inspection had to be removed from service. The return flight IB-3577 was cancelled, the passengers were rebooked onto the evening flight IB-3575.

The aircraft has not yet departed Vienna 25 hours after landing (standing Feb 16th 12:00Z).



source: http://avherald.com/h?article=44afb0ea

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